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Phylogenetic and molecular epidemiological studies reveal evidence of multiple past recombination events between infectious laryngotracheitis viruses.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Lee Sang-Won, Devlin Joanne M, Markham John F, Noormohammadi Amir H, Browning Glenn F, Ficorilli Nino P, Hartley Carol A, Markham Philip F
Abstract excerpt
In contrast to the RNA viruses, the genome of large DNA viruses such as herpesviruses have been considered to be relatively stable. Intra-specific recombination has been proposed as an important, but underestimated, driving force in herpesvirus evolution. Recently, two distinct field strains of infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) have been shown to have arisen from independent recombination events between...
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